Taps have been dry for more than eight years in eThekwini municipality’s ward 105. The residents of numerous villages ...

Work on the Tshivhuyuni Sports Facility in Limpopo started in August 2023, but the stadium remains incomplete. Now the ...

Saldanha fisher Gerald Zacharias says that small-scale fishing is no longer a viable option for the next generation.

Families living in informal settlements in Nomzamo, Strand are worried about stinking sewage spills, and waste strewn across ...

The Maluti-a-Phofung municipality is intermittently supplying Jwala-Boholo and Qoqolosing villages with water trucks ...

Six months into the financial year, a number of non-profit organisations have still not received their subsidies from the ...

A Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services report says hundreds of prisoners are held in solitary confinement and this ...

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One person has died and two others have been hospitalised with critical injuries after a fire destroyed large parts of Cemetery View informal settlement in Pretoria in the early hours of Saturday ...

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For years, conservationists have struggled to find effective ways to combat the illegal trade in ivory. While it may sound like a tool only used by archaeologists to study ancient artefacts, carbon ...

Thousands of RDP houses and an informal settlement with over 300 shacks in Kariega have been without tap water for a month now. Grandmother Siphokazi Hoyi was fetching water from a truck in ...